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I was grateful for. He was my friend,
and I loved the guy, but I was hoping to see Rory without him there making his
lame ass jokes.
    This
club always had a killer band playing, and the back room had a pool table and
darts for the ones that came to drink and have fun, not just for the music.
Brody told me Rory had been in a funk lately, but that he was bringing Marissa
with him and that he would try to see if she could convince Rory to come.
    I
walked in the doors of the music hall and looked around for Brody. After a few
minutes, I saw him by the bar with some blonde attached to him. He was trying
to give her the brush off, but this one was having none of it. I walked over to
him and decided to have a little fun. “Hey man,” I said and clapped him on the
shoulder.
    “Oh
hey,” he said.
    “So,
did you get the all clear at the doctor about your Chlamydia test? You must
have if you’re out celebrating, right?” I said, smiling at the blonde girl.
    He
gave me a shitty look, and the blonde looked horrified. “Dude, what the hell?”
he said.
    “Excuse
me, I think I’m going to go meet my friends. It was nice meeting you,” the girl
said, and hurried away.
    I
busted out laughing. “What the fuck? Why did you do that?” he asked.
    “Just
helping you out, bro. She looked a little like a predator.”
    “Well,
that may be, but still. Not cool,” he said, and was starting to thaw.
    “I
was just helping. I wouldn’t want to upset your girlfriend,” I said, now
noticing that Marissa was sitting at a table by herself, bopping along to the
music, and no Rory in sight. Damn it.
    “Who,
Marissa? She’s not my girlfriend, just a friend.”
    “Didn’t
look that way that night at Shadow. She looked like she wanted to rip your
clothes off and do you right in the club.”
    He
looked pleasantly surprised. “What? No, she was just drunk and hitting on the
first guy she’d seen. She doesn’t feel that way about me, trust me. She’s just
shy.”
    “Well,
that must be it. If she didn’t have beer goggles on, she would have hit on me
because I am way hotter than you,” I joked.
    “Well,
even if she didn’t she wouldn’t have noticed you anyway because you were
eye-fucking my sister the whole time,” he said, smiling.
    I
grinned and ran my hand through my hair. “So where is the sister tonight
anyway? Did she decide to sit this one out?”
    He
smirked at me. “Got it bad, huh?”
    Boy
you don’t know the half of it. “No, I was just wondering. She seems cool.”
    “Uh
huh. She just went to the bathroom, she’ll be back in a minute,” he said,
motioning me to his table. Yes…she was here. When we got there, Marissa
saw me and looked pleasantly surprised. “You remember Marissa, right?”
    “Of
course I do, nice to see you again,” I said, shaking her hand.
    “You
too. Oh hey, sorry about my behavior at the club a few weeks back. That’s not
at all how I act in public, I promise. Hopefully I didn’t do or say anything
stupid,” she said, blushing. She clearly didn’t remember any of the important
details, which was probably a good thing for her. I remember Rory telling me
she had a thing for Brody.
    “Oh,
don’t worry about it. You didn’t do anything. You were just a little tipsy and
Brody got you home safely,” I said, grinning at him. I don’t know why he didn’t
just go for it. Marissa was a total knock out and she was definitely into him.
    “Yeah,
he’s a good guy,” she said, and patted him on the hand. I noticed him tense a
little, but he smiled at her.
    At
that moment, I felt all the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up. I
turned to see, and my eyes fell on Rory walking to the table looking like pure
sex on two long legs. She had her beautiful dark red waves down around her bare
shoulders but had it parted to the side and braided into a loose braid around
her forehead. She was wearing a black halter top with a skull and crossbones on
it that stopped just slightly above her belly